Key: D major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I'm hitting fast forward
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Seems like we'd gotten kind of stuck
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Time to get out of town and try to
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Set the controls for some
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time off in the future
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Where people will be happy
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instead of
Verse 2
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Getting dumber and getting
scareder all the time
Scared of their own shadows
and scared to take a fall
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Either miserable with millions
or dying for a dime
Desperate to live forever or
lucky to live at all
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Verse 3
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And if I could see my self
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from some other planet
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Would I be shaking my head sadly or
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Would I be laughing
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Saying it's always been the same
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But anyway
Verse 4
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Not going back to the Age of
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Gold or the Age of Sin
Fast forward till I understand
the age I'm in
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Verse 5
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And it's always the old guys bitching
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About the young guys
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growing beards
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Or turning into sissies or something
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While they're trying to hold back time
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As if that isn't weird
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Meanwhile the young guys are
Verse 6
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Waiting for respect when what
they wanna be is cool
Cool calm and collected just as
if that isn't strange
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Or they wanna blow the whistle,
ring the bell and change the rules
When the game goes on forever
It's just the uniforms that change
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Verse 7
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If this is the best of times or
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if it's the worst
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There's some difference
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of opinion out there
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Everyone is a genius
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But no one has any friends
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Or is it the other way around
Verse 8
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Not going back to the Age of
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Gold or the Age of Sin
Fast forward till I understand the
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age I'm in
Interlude 1
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Verse 9
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Sometimes I look at the Moon
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And I think I know just how she feels
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Going round and round us again
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As we go round the Sun
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Watching us as fools
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and geniuses rush in
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And you and me age disgracefully
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And have way too much fun
Interlude 2
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Verse 10
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And everyone knows about
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what's over and done
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And tied up with pretty ribbons on it
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One king after an other
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With a mad one and a
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queen or two
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Thrown in for good measure
Verse 11
and meanwhile
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We can make the future,
make it every bit as clear
Make a friendly Star Trek universe,
'cause everything's allowed
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The only place that's seriously
strange to be is here
And the only time that's
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maddeningly mysterious is now
Verse 12
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So I'm hitting fast forward
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Verse 13
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Come on get
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on board!
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You don't wanna be late now...
Verse 14
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Not going back to the Age of Gold
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or the Age of Sin
Outro 1
Fast forward till I understand the age I'm in
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